Robert Nozick

Rights protect the individual from the collective.

Utopia is a framework for utopias.

Filtering mechanisms lead to the dominant protective association.

Compensation for risk imposition is possible.

Self-ownership is the foundation of rights.

Knowledge is not merely justified true belief.

Free will is compatible with determinism.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but structured.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Relationships are the fabric of meaning.

Creativity is rebellion against the given.

The good life is one of symbolic ascent.

Philosophy illuminates the darkness of the soul.

Justice is not about equality but entitlement.

The examined life is worth living, but exhausting.

Governments are necessary evils.

Reality is objective, but our grasp is subjective.

In dying, we affirm life.

Nozick's last words: 'Life is a great adventure.'

Philosophy is the art of asking the right questions.